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Transportation
Patrick Burn was transported on the Friendship, departing 13th May 1787 and arriving 21st Jan 1788 with 107 passengers.
This convict ship, being 274 tons and 75 feet long was one of the light weight ships in the fllet and was skippered by Master Francis Walton. Built in Scarborough in 1784, she carried 76 male and 21 female convicts. During her return voyage to England her crew came down with scurvy and with insufficient crew to man her, she was scuttled in the straights of Macassar. The survivors were transferred to the Alexander.
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Patrick Burn was tried at Exeter, Devon on 11 August 1783 for highway robbery with a value of 49 shillings. He was sentenced to transportation for 7 years having been originally sentenced to death, and left England on the Friendship aged about 26 at that time (May 1787). His occupation was listed as baker. He died in 1791 Guilty of return from transport following the Mercury mutiny.Report from Dunkirk hulk was “troublesome at times”.Fathered a son with Ann Smith of the Charlotte in 1789.